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Rise in Israeli strikes in Syria has led to decrease of Iranian activity
2020-12-11
[Jpost] Over 500 strikes on all fronts, but "we still have a long way to go to complete our goals," says IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi.

Iran’s entrenchment in Syria is slowing down as a result of ongoing IDF operations which have increased over the past year, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi announced Friday. The IDF chief also revealed for the first time that the military has been carried out cyberattacks.

"The Iranian entrenchment in Syria is in a clear slowdown as a result of IDF activity, but we still have a long way to go to complete our goals in this arena," he said.

The past year has seen an increase in pace and quality of Israeli strikes against Iranian assets in Syria, including kinetic operations as well as an expansion of both covert and clandestine ones.

"We have struck over 500 targets this year, on all fronts, in addition to multiple clandestine missions," Kochavi said.

Israel has warned repeatedly about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, as well as its aspirations of regional hegemony, and has admitted to hundreds of Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s as part of its "war-between-wars" campaign (known as MABAM in Hebrew) to prevent the transfer of advanced weapons to Hezbollah in Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
and the entrenchment of its forces in Syria, where they could easily act against Israel.

Not only have the strikes in Syria destroyed an immeasurable amount of advanced weaponry, but in recent months, Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has also significantly reduced the number of cargo flights into Syria which are used to smuggle weapons into the war-torn country.

Iranian bases, camps and headquarters have also been moved from the area around Damascus towards the northern and eastern parts of Syria, and the number of Iranian troops and militia members has also shrunk considerably.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Amazing how that works.

Sort of like 'Too many feral youth miscreants are locked up as Crime decreases'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-12-11 08:52  

#1  The NYTimes (Fox Butterfield) would report this as,

"Israeli strikes in Syria continue despite decrease of Iranian activity"
Posted by: Lord Garth   2020-12-11 07:53  

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